In the context of the new era, aesthetic education is an important issue in the reform and development of national education, and its status and role have been elevated to a high level. The development of aesthetic education has also become an urgent issue and a major construction link for various colleges and universities. Dance education, which can highlight the nature, characteristics and purpose of aesthetic education has also developed into a key discipline for the development of education and talent cultivation in various colleges and universities. How to promote the physical and mental health, beautify the minds of students, enrich the hearts and spirits, and improve the ideology and morality of aesthetic education in colleges and universities is a practical and innovative measure of dance education in teaching. Therefore, this article focuses on the analysis of aesthetic education in colleges and universities, and launches the connotative research on the teaching of dance aesthetic education in colleges and universities. In this way, the dance aesthetic education in colleges and universities can meet the requirements of the aesthetic education thought of the new era with the improvement of educational practice and education theory, that is, the aesthetic education thought of "educating people with aesthetics, beautifying the soul with aesthetics, and nurturing talents with aesthetics".

Wu Xiaoyun. Research on the Innovative Approaches to the Teaching Mode of Dance "Aesthetic Education" in Colleges and Universities under the New Era Aesthetic Education Thought. Frontiers in Educational Research (2021) Vol. 4, Issue 12: 44-48. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2021.041209.

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